Wedgwood, The · Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0San Antonio draws about two in three of Castle Hills’ working residents
Only 3% work in Castle Hills itself; outside it, San Antonio draws the most (68%, 4 miles). Jobs and income earn Castle Hills A; getting around on foot earns it A−. Household incomes here are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Castle Hills, in a few figures
More than half of Castle Hills works in San Antonio
1,320 working residents, 68%, have their main job in San Antonio, 4.3 miles away. That’s 23 times as many as work in Castle Hills itself. The commute map ↓
Castle Hills fills up on a workday
Castle Hills has 6,210 jobs, 3.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 8,200 people are in town, more than double the 3,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Castle Hills has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Castle Hills went from 3,615 in 2014 to 6,210 in 2024, +72%. The jobs ↓
Most Castle Hills residents work close to home
68% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Castle Hills are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Castle Hills’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Castle Hills is better than 91% of U.S. towns, #73 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 97% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (6.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Castle Hills could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Where Castle Hills’ workforce comes from
Where Castle Hills clocks in
68% of workers
3% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
In and out of Castle Hills on a workday
On a workday 1,878 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 6,148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Castle Hills on a workday afternoon, 108% more than live here.
3.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Castle Hills is a services town
6,210 jobs are based in Castle Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Castle Hills, 2014 → 2024: 3,615 → 6,210. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Castle Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Castle Hills goes to work
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Time on the road from Castle Hills: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Castle Hills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,481 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Castle Hills is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,719 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 25% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 10.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 94% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Castle Hills households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Castle Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,084 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,300, Castle Hills comes 361st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 4 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Watertown MN | 4,789 | $100K | 7.7% | 0.0% | 5% | A |
| 360 | Millersburg OR | 3,583 | $125K | 5.1% | 1.5% | 4% | A |
| 361 | Castle Hills TX | 3,948 | $95K | 6.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A |
| 362 | Olive Township MI | 5,291 | $80K | 2.6% | 0.7% | 6% | A |
| 363 | Leonardtown MD | 5,033 | $154K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 13% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,084 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Castle Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Castle Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Castle Hills?
$95,391 (±$16,882) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Castle Hills?
6.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Castle Hills?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Castle Hills work?
3% work in town.
Is Castle Hills walkable?
Castle Hills is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 14.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Castle Hills without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 25% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Castle Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Castle Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.